Armenian students to study Islam at Yerevan State University

The Faculty of Oriental Studies of the Yerevan State University has opened the center for Islamic studies, News Armenia cites President of the university Aram Simonyan.

Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan and Iranian Minister for Education Hamid Reza Hajibabai signed the agreement to open the center for Islamic studies and a center for Armenian studies at the Iranian Institute for Humanitarian Sciences and Culturology in 2012.

Hamid Reza Ayatollahi, head of the Iranian Institute for Humanitarian Sciences and Culturology, emphasized that the center will encourage more student exchange.